telegraf/plugins/outputs/kafka/README.md

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# Kafka Producer Output Plugin
This plugin writes to a [Kafka Broker](http://kafka.apache.org/07/quickstart.html) acting a Kafka Producer.
```
[[outputs.kafka]]
## URLs of kafka brokers
brokers = ["localhost:9092"]
## Kafka topic for producer messages
topic = "telegraf"
## Telegraf tag to use as a routing key
## ie, if this tag exists, it's value will be used as the routing key
routing_tag = "host"
## CompressionCodec represents the various compression codecs recognized by
## Kafka in messages.
## 0 : No compression
## 1 : Gzip compression
## 2 : Snappy compression
compression_codec = 0
## RequiredAcks is used in Produce Requests to tell the broker how many
## replica acknowledgements it must see before responding
## 0 : the producer never waits for an acknowledgement from the broker.
## This option provides the lowest latency but the weakest durability
## guarantees (some data will be lost when a server fails).
## 1 : the producer gets an acknowledgement after the leader replica has
## received the data. This option provides better durability as the
## client waits until the server acknowledges the request as successful
## (only messages that were written to the now-dead leader but not yet
## replicated will be lost).
## -1: the producer gets an acknowledgement after all in-sync replicas have
## received the data. This option provides the best durability, we
## guarantee that no messages will be lost as long as at least one in
## sync replica remains.
required_acks = -1
## The total number of times to retry sending a message
max_retry = 3
## Optional SSL Config
# ssl_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
# ssl_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
# ssl_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
## Use SSL but skip chain & host verification
# insecure_skip_verify = false
data_format = "influx"
```
### Required parameters:
* `brokers`: List of strings, this is for speaking to a cluster of `kafka` brokers. On each flush interval, Telegraf will randomly choose one of the urls to write to. Each URL should just include host and port e.g. -> `["{host}:{port}","{host2}:{port2}"]`
* `topic`: The `kafka` topic to publish to.
### Optional parameters:
* `routing_tag`: if this tag exists, it's value will be used as the routing key
* `compression_codec`: What level of compression to use: `0` -> no compression, `1` -> gzip compression, `2` -> snappy compression
* `required_acks`: a setting for how may `acks` required from the `kafka` broker cluster.
* `max_retry`: Max number of times to retry failed write
* `ssl_ca`: SSL CA
* `ssl_cert`: SSL CERT
* `ssl_key`: SSL key
* `insecure_skip_verify`: Use SSL but skip chain & host verification (default: false)
* `data_format`: [About Telegraf data formats](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md)